Mindy Householder
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Fossil Preparator for the North Dakota Geological Survey. Currently working on Dakota the dinomummy.
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Clint Boyd
3 days ago
Not the kind of person you want to coauthor with or accept funding from...
add a skeleton here at some point
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For all of my fossil prep friends out there, come join us for the annual Association for Materials and Methods in Paleontology meeting right here in Bismarck on April 14-18th! Even if you just want an excuse to see Dakota the dinomummy up close!
www.paleomethods.org/Annual-Meeting
13 days ago
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A special Throwback Thursday! Since Jane became a holotype today, here's some old photos from 2003/2004 when I got to help prep her.
4 months ago
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My annual it gets cold here in North Dakota in January post. That's -20°F which is about -28°C which is not as cold as I've seen it here in the past.
about 1 year ago
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O dinosaur tree, O dinosaur tree. How lovely are thy teeth.
about 1 year ago
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Stephanie Drumheller
about 1 year ago
Oh no! Paleontologizing caught
@boydpaleo.bsky.social
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, and me being super normal about a rotting cow on the SVP field trip.
#taphonomy
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It was an itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie, yellow poka-dot rare crocy, that I prepped for the first time today. Pin-vise is at 1/64" size! So little!
over 1 year ago
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Sternberg Science Camps+
over 1 year ago
Curious where Sternberg Science Camps+ will be this summer? Well we’ve got a map for that! Yellow states are places we have logistics pretty much locked in for. States in gray are ones we are diligently working on for 2025 programs! We’ll be posting updates of this map as we get logistics finalized.
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If you see this, post your bird art 🐦⬛🪶🎨
add a skeleton here at some point
over 1 year ago
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Growing up in Chicago and so close to the Field Museum, I always had a deep fondness for Charles R. Knight's paintings. Recently, I was given this wax model that was supposedly used as a study for the famous Fighting Laelaps painting.
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Hi! I’m Mindy and I’ve worked as a preparator of fossil vertebrates for 21 years. I’ve worked on all sorts of projects both large and microscopic. Most of my current work is on fossilized skin from Dakota the
#dinomummy
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over 1 year ago
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Clint Boyd
over 1 year ago
Sorry for the delay! Catching up on posting over a lunch break.
@mhouseholder.bsky.social
and I set off early this morning to run some SEM-EDS analysis on thin sections of fossilized skin from Dakota the
#dinomummy
at NDSU in Fargo.
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